Gore Rider Progress Thread

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Almost a year ago, I started a character with the plan to use an ethereal Ravenlore I'd found with the intended challenge being that I'd finish the pat without breaking the unique helm.

Well.

I made a Beast runeword recently and one of my planned characters was a fuzzy dodger. The levelling process was pretty interesting (more on that in an upcoming mat thread), but at some point I accidentally muled on an ethereal pair of Gore Rider boots in late NM. When I noticed it, I decided that a new challenge was on!



That first lost point of durability occurred somewhere in the Tamoe Highlands or the Outer Cloister in Hell difficulty. The new challenge is whether I can finish the mat with those eth boots intact!

Please feel free to speculate on how soon they'll break.

 

[PhineasB]

That’s a lot of durability. I think she can make it, especially with all the dodging!

 

[LouB]

I agree with PhineasB. She will make it. Now if the character was an Assassin using Dragon Talon or Dragon Tail, I say that they would be gone by the end of Act 3.

 

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I'm currently at 65% block as well as about 6k defense, so we'll see. Maybe I should be doing full-clears as well...

 

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Act 1 is down with no new scuffs:

Maybe an ethereal-items-only character is in my future...

 

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Act 2 is down with a few new dings:

I started doing full-clears but I didn't do that for the AS. I didn't have the patience for that.

I'm maintaining 67% block, so maybe the flayers won't hit me too much.

 

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Act 3 is down.

I was so sure that Act 3 would do better. I did full clears as much as possible, including The Great Marsh and The Sewers, but I did forget to do the side areas in the Causeway.

BTW, I switched from Upped Moser's to a Sanctuary Troll Nest, which made it a bit easier to keep 67% block by letting me put more points in vit. Blocks are 1 frame slower (3->4), but hits are 3 frames faster (11->8). Then again, due to high life and damage mitigation, how often will FHR matter? In any case, the MDR and slightly higher defense are mainly why I wanted to switch.

 

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Act 4 is down with no new dents.

As you can probably tell from the screenshot, I'm using Andariel's Visage, and I don't recall seeing PN go off even once. I have seen some mobs get poisoned, but that could be Venom.

 

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Weeeeeeeeelp. That's it, I guess?


Hmmm. There was a day or so where I thought "oh, I could turn this into seeing if I could get to 99 before it breaks," but that seems like a lot and something that I'd never complete. Oh well. Also, I did start noticing PN procs right after my last post.

Act 5 was at /p8 the whole time, which was mostly fine, but there were some problem areas.

Mat thread to follow, "soon."